[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#962914: Please consider setting default UPower critical battery action to hibernate rather than hybrid sleep

[thomasw at fastmail.cn]

Package: upower
Version: 0.99.11-2

I propose setting the critical battery action to hibernate rather than hybrid sleep in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf
Reasons:
1. Windows does this by default. By doing what Widnows does in this situation, you are more likely to get expected behavior. FWIW: Windows doesn't even expose hybrid sleep on laptops by default.
Real life example, my laptop and many others immediately wake when entering s3 if the battery is below a certain percentage. The thinking from the designers is that the laptop will be woken up so that the operating system can hibernate it. The problem is that when entering hybrid sleep. UPower saves the hibernate disk image and enters s3 and it immediately wakes and runs until a hard shutdown.
2. Running lithium based batteries to flat is harmful for their longevity. If a machine is put into hybrid sleep at a low percentage and is not turned on for a few days, the battery will run completely flat.